{sixteen}

[highcostofliving]

Don't listen to what everyone else says. I thought that you were cute. And what a trip! Two chances at high school?

For being the best years of your life, it can also be the hardest. You've made it through.

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[shutupsammy]

Two chances my muscular behind.

Whoever says that high school was the best years of their life has shit to look forward to. I want the best years of my life to be the last ones. Big dreamer.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

I think the issue is what qualifies as best, Dean. Best Picture at the Academy Awards may not be the most enjoyable to sit through.

And chances to try things twice should always be appreciated.

[shutupsammy]

Best is a death happy and warm and surrounded by fat grandchildren.

Chances to try things twice are cruel. The outcome isn't going to change. Even if you do things differently, nothing changes. You just end up angry and confused and stuck in some kind of retarded predestination paradox and time marches on.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

I'll remember that.

That's one way to see it. If you leave out free will entirely and the nature of change.

[shutupsammy]

I hope you do. I keep searching for you at home, but the time is never right. Should never have refused to go with you the first time. I'm getting tired.

'Course at home you called yourself Tessa. But you were still a pretty girl.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

The time is right when it's right. Appreciate what you've got left for what it is, hm?

Thank you, Dean. That's sweet of you to say. One name tag couldn't fit what I'm called from one place to another. One name gets the point across.

[shutupsammy]

Kind of hard to appreciate it when I feel like there's part of me missing that I can't fill with anything else, where you belong.


Man, I am totally coming off as a creeper, aren't I?

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

You can either learn to live with it or let that gap grow not just in you but between you and other people.

No. Then again I have a very high tolerance.

[shutupsammy]

Feel like it's a little late for that, some days. But hell, I'm still alive. Guess that means shit can still change, like you said.

I bet you have a really high tolerance for teenagers, too.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

With the right focus and positivity, you can end up surprising yourself.

I like all people.

[shutupsammy]

Positivity isn't exactly my thing. Stubbornness substitutes well enough most days.

Well, good. Because if you didn't, I feel like there could be some kind of a problem.

Do you like your job?

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

You could call it stubborn determination instead.

Oh, there would be a problem for sure.

It's more of a job, it's my purpose of being. But...I do like it.

[shutupsammy]

I'm glad you like it. Because frankly, if you didn't? That'd suck for you.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

I know. There was a time when I didn't like it as well. That's because I didn't understand.

[shutupsammy]

I know the feeling.

I mean, I don't actually know the feeling. That's obviously impossible. But I know what it's like to not understand you, I guess. So who's to say you can't understand all of yourself all the time.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

Just goes to show that everyone needs to learn as they experience.

[gouge-em-out.livejournal.com]

I never went the first time.

...I'm glad.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

You made it all the same, Kay.

[gouge-em-out.livejournal.com]

High school isn't fun. Better than college, at least.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

Some experiences are better than others. I'm sorry that yours was not what it could have been.

[gouge-em-out.livejournal.com]

It wasn't...terrible, I guess.

In college they teach classes about my sexual maturity and supposed attraction to the snow queen. Sometimes, you can read too much into something...

voice; placeholderrr needs sleep at some point

[ibrokehistory]

I wonder if we can have a little talk. Nothing that will take too much of your time. But just... a little talk.

voice; ttly gonna sleep within 30 mins myself...

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

I've got all the time in the world. What would you like to talk about?

voice; I hope you slept >.>!

[ibrokehistory]

My father said, before he died, that it was his time to go. And my mother, I think that she die peacefully too. But... does everybody have a time when they should die?

Everybody who is human.

Claire. Sylar.

voice; o yes yes

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

Everything that begins has an ending.

voice; good! <3

[ibrokehistory]

You are sure of this?

voice; good! <3

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

Yes. I'm not the storyteller of the family.

[passionforshoes.livejournal.com]

Don't need two chances when I never took advantage of the first one. It's obvious I didn't miss shit anyway.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

Then I can see you don't have any regrets. That's good.

[knockoff-hero.livejournal.com]

Except for those of us who are still stuck going. I mean, back home.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

Are you going to call that curse practice?

[knockoff-hero.livejournal.com]

Dunno, it was more of a reminder of what it was like to be a normal high school kid.

I'm not sure whether I miss that or not.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

Normal, huh? I don't think there is a quick reference example. Some people are given years less exciting than others. I would never say that any are normal.

[letxequalnull.livejournal.com]

Provided the experience was enjoyable the first time, perhaps.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

Or the second could be a Mulligan.

[letxequalnull.livejournal.com]

It is one of the possibilities.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

You've got a decent number of chances under your belt, Xemnas.

[letxequalnull.livejournal.com]

But there is no guarantee that will remain the same forever.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

That's why they say one should make the most of what they have.

For the better I mean.

[letxequalnull.livejournal.com]

I fully intend to. After all, it would be a shame to let such a chance go to waste.

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

I do mean it when I say for the better.

[letxequalnull.livejournal.com]

Of course.

[lovingmybamfgun.livejournal.com]

I was a teacher for three days. Who would've thought?

[highcost-living.livejournal.com]

What did you think, Mickey?